>> Also the editors included in the image are crap because they lack two important features: 1) keeping track of the damn paranteses and 2) comment and uncomment region. >Yes. nano is crap. vi has paren matching, but doest keep tack of them . Editing lispy code with tracking of parens is not a pleasure. Nano has paren matching (Alt-]) and commenting out (Alt-3). It allows you to select text with cursor keys, then shift-cursor keys. It might make sense to patch the nano status line to mention that, though. I agree that otherwise it leaves something to be desired - but it can be used for editing lisp source code just fine.